Day: May 9, 2018

 

P1-4 were thrilled to welcome back Kathryn Purchase with her History Alive presentation of ‘Knights and Castles’. This was a perfect way to launch our Castles topic and the children were fascinated with all the interesting facts and gory detail.  We can’t wait for the chance to have Kathryn back again!

 

“ I can see that when the Vikings were defeated, lots of castles were built.” Fraser

“It was interesting to find out about all the different parts in a castle.” Breagh

“ Early castles (motte and bailey) were made of wood and I didn’t know this.” Luke

“The church was overall ruler in medieval times.” Malcolm

“The walls of a castle could sometimes be as thick as our classroom!” Struan

“I liked finding out about the weapons used in a siege.” Murray

 

P1-4 are learning about babies and life cycles in HWB. We had some special little visitors into class to help us learn about how to care for a baby.  Kerr (4 months) and Olivia (13 weeks) popped in to see us with their mums, Alexa and Sarah.  The girls and boys had the chance to ask the mummies lots of questions and will now be taking on the challenge of caring for our own class baby, Baby Annabelle.

“I’m not looking forward to changing a nappy. I don’t really want to do it!”  Noah

“I now know how to hold a baby.” Brandon

“Washing the baby might be tricky!” Cara

“I’m not very keen on getting up in the middle of the night!” Malcolm